A VERY FRIENDLY VALENTINE’S DAY by Kayley Loring-Review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 14, 2021

EDDIE: Cancel your dinky little roomette on the train. I’m booking us two of the big bedroom suites.

BIRDIE: I’ll cancel it AFTER you’ve booked the other sleeper rooms. And reimburse you.

EDDIE: Don’t worry about it. Just cancel your tickets. I got this. Round trip. I’m on the Amtrak website right now.

BIRDIE: You don’t have to leave NYC when I do! You’ll hardly be able to spend any time with your Instagram girlfriend that you’ve never met!

EDDIE: It’s fine. She’ll be fine with it. Cancel your tickets.

BIRDIE: You aren’t going to stop texting me until I’ve canceled them, are you?

EDDIE: Damn right I’m not. Just do it. You can thank me later.

***

EDDIE: Um. Did you cancel your tickets?

BIRDIE: Yes, Edward. I canceled them.

EDDIE: Okay, because it turns out they only had one Family Bedroom from LA to Chicago. But the good news is I booked it for us. It’s the biggest room they had. The bad news is I booked it for us. And it’s the only sleeper room they have left now.

EDDIE: In related news, there was also only one room left from Chicago to New York.

EDDIE: Hands up if you’re excited! *man raising hand emoji*

BIRDIE: I am so mad at you right now.

***

BIRDIE: I’ve compiled a list of ground rules re shared train bedroom. Check your email, please read carefully, and refer to it again on the ninth of February. Thank you.

EDDIE: *nerd face emoji* Received. I have some notes.

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REVIEW: A VERY FRIENDLY VALENTINE’S DAY is the second instalment in Kayley Loring’s contemporary, adult, erotic, holiday, rom-com series. This is twenty-six year old actor Edward ‘Eddie’ Cannavale, and archivist Birdie Backett’s story line. A VERY FRIENDLY VALENTINE’S DAY can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Eddie is Gavin’s brother (A VERY BOSSY CHRISTMAS).

Told from three first person perspectives (Eddie, Birdie, Piper) A VERY FRIENDLY VALENTINE’S DAY follows the best friends to lovers relationship between twenty-six year old actor Edward ‘Eddie’ Cannavale, and archivist Birdie Backett’. Birdie and Eddie have been best friends since the day they met in college, six years earlier, but Eddie’s star is on the rise, and he is currently in a virtual relationship with a woman he met on social media, a woman he has never met in real life. Birdie, afraid to fly, books a train trip to New York, a trip in which Eddie invites himself, in an effort to meet the woman he has never met but a series of comical errors finds our couple together on the Valentine’s Day ‘Love Train’ trying desperately to keep their palpable sexual attraction from going ‘off the rails’. As the trip enters sexual territory, Eddie gets waylaid on a stop over in Chicago, and realizes he has fallen in love with his best friend. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Eddie and Birdie, as our couple must navigate Eddie’s career, and the social media that follows their every move.

The relationship between Eddie and Birdie is a friends to lovers romance that is strong in texting, and a drunken profession of love from our story line hero. The back and forth banter is flirty and fun; the $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and hot.

The secondary and supporting characters include Eddie’s brother Gavin, as well as their large extended loud and boisterous Irish/Italian family (mostly via phone). We are introduced to Birdie’s best friend Layla; Eddie’s instagram girlfriend Alana, who we only know through texts and messages; Nancy, the sleeping car attendant on the train who sees more than most; casting director Debra Silver, as well as Rupert Norton III, a stranger on the train who takes an interest in our story line heroine. The majority of the story line follows the couple on the train to New York.

A VERY FRIENDLY VALENTINE’S DAY is a fun and flirty , spicy and inviting story. The character driven premise is amusing and engaging; the romance is spicy and seductive; the characters are sassy, lively and spirited.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one A VERY BOSSY CHRISTMAS

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Reviewed by Sandy

Before writing steamy romantic comedy novels, Kayley Loring got a BFA in creative writing from a Canadian university and had a fifteen-year career as a screenwriter in Los Angeles (under a different name). She mostly wrote PG-13 family comedies that studios would pay her lots of money for and then never make into movies. In 2017 she decided to move to the Pacific Northwest and write about all the fun stuff that she wasn’t allowed to write about in those PG-13 scripts. Now she’s breathing cleaner air and writing dirtier words. It’s an adjustment she’s happily getting used to.

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